
“The Beloved of Aphrodite,” El Ciruelo, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1990, Tony Gleaton
“Occasionally I think of death. I can easily believe in the disintegration of the body, but cannot believe that all I have learned, experienced, accumulated, can disappear and be wasted. Like a river, it must flow somewhere. There must be continuity.”
— Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 5: 1947-1955
capitalism is fucking scary because it will commodify literally anything. it commodifies the rebellion culture that is supposed to strike against the system but capitalism turns it into “punk rock”. it commodifies spirituality to make you buy self help books that teaches you to stay away from capitalism. it commodifies minimalism and makes you buy things to maintain your minimalist aesthetic. it commodifies global warming, one of the deadliest consequences of capitalism itself and guilt trips you into buying “green products”. it commodifies itself and creates the idea that vanity is fashionable. it will eat everything up.
let’s just stop time so i can read all my books without real life interfering
““You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.””
— James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin (via floriental)

capricorns can be captivating conversationalists who talk a blue streak about subjects of interest and knowledge. they appreciate the company of intelligent and educated people who express the same worldly intrigue. but capricorns are silent in more occasions, largely because they refuse to summon any energy for participating in a boring, bland, or uninformed conversation
me: *hangs out with someone for 3 hours*
me: oh hey, i just remembered i have to tell you something
me internally: that was a lie. I’ve been wanting to tell you all day but I’ve been to nervous to just say it so I’ve been mentally rehearsing for hours